Progressive international development and traditional charity aid

I’ve just blogged on the Progressive Development Forum that the TUC supports about the speech made on Monday by Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis MP, which I think hit a lot of the right notes. He made the argument about the size of the aid budget part of a wider debate about social and economic justice, and rejected the paternalistic distinction between policies for the UK and policies for developing countries.

Written by Owen Tudor

I’ve been the Head of the TUC’s European Union and International Relations Department since 2003 and have worked at the TUC since 1984. I’ve been a member of the Health and Safety Commission, the Civil Justice Council, the Social Security Ad…